I think you’re talking about is a slightly narrower concept: altruistic seriousness about things that are important AND urgent. Everybody is serious about at least a few non-urgent selfish concerns. In the case of children/elderly possibly “unimportant” as well.
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I know you think that but is it true really?
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Yes. This is one of the clear conclusions from Sarah Perry’s book on suicide and stuff she’s written since. Life isn’t intrinsically worthwhile and valuable enough to defend at arbitrary cost. It has to be made worth defending at any given level.
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I’m mostly not a serious person and don’t concern myself with serious things in your broad sense (altruistic, urgent) unless I’m being paid to. Using your calculus it’s because without pay I can rarely bring myself to care enough directly to do a good job.
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this exchange is kinda reminding me ofhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1207379999059111936 …
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And people who do the serious stuff are not necessarily being super serious about it. Going past seriousness towards playfulness seems crucial for doing serious stuff?
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At least for the "workers," mucking around and joking nihilistically, and scientists (Feynman, etc), but I really wonder about what kinds of playfulness are present in, like, political or military strategic decision-making.
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